- Far Cry 2 (DirectX 9/10)

Far Cry 2 supports both DirectX 9 and DirectX10 and its graphics engine is much lighter than the one the Crysis title is based on.

The very same settings, DX10, very high image quality and eight AA samples. With the Q3 driver release, NVIDIA opened up a can of extra performance in Far Cry 2.

It looks like the Inno3D GTX 580 OC is the fastest single-GPU card in the test, leaving the GTX 480 and the HD 6870 behind.

- Left4Dead (DirectX 9)

Introduced in 2004, Valve’s Source engine continues to live on in new Valve games. Although this game is not very GPU limited to a significant degree we are using it in our testbed.

We used a custom time demo and measured the performance of the graphics card for the resolutions of 1280x1024, 1650x1080 and 1920x1200, with 16xAF enabled and all visual settings maxed out.

Once again the GTX 580 performed great and took the first position among the rest single-GPU cards.

- StreetFighter IV (DirectX 9)

Here are two more benchmarks from the Streetfighter IV and the Unigine Benchmark Engine (DX10) demonstrating the graphic performance of the Inno3D GTX 580 OC graphics card.

Unigine is a proprietary cross-platform middleware, developed by Unigine Corp. It is used as either a game engine or as an engine for VR systems. Unigine currently has support for OpenGL 4.0 and DirectX 11 It supports hardware tessellation and Screen Space Ambient Occlusion (SSAO), DirectCompute, and Shader Model 5.0.

Surprisingly, at the StreetFighter IV game, the Inno3D GTX 580 gave less FPS than the GTX 465 GOOD and the GTX 470 graphics cards.

On the other hand, the Unigine benchmark was easier for the GTX 580 OC and the card preformed pretty well. The card remains faster than the GTX 480 and the HD 5870, 5970.